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And that simply isn't going to happen. (Without at least one major party collapsing and not being on the ballot.)
Actually it would happen if every person who thought like you voted third party. Or, instead of courting either dem or republican voters, a third party targeted non-voters exclusively since they're still the majority voting block.
I mean this honestly, how do we understand what the issues of non voters are? Is there a consistent populace that never votes or is it a variable pool? Has it been shown that non voters care about entirely different issues than voters?
My impression is that most of them just don't care about politics (or much else).
It's like that blue-or-red button thing that's been going around.
The critical mass of people willing to vote that way (and this assumes there's only one 3rd party that everyone in question agrees is better) would have to exist first before they would be willing to vote that way.
We're more than a decade past that critical mass existing. No human being wanted to see Hillary Clinton in office. There were zero genuine supporters of hers amongst the working class. She was an awful human being during the Clinton years - literally the worst woman in US politics up to that point, on the same level as Margaret Thatcher.
And absolutely no one really supported Donald Trump except as a protest to establishment politics. Trump 1 didn't have the cult yet, and I think a lot of people forget that. He was just a clown outsider that was voted in as a protest against the ridiculous number of exact same 'things' in skin suits that participated in the RNC Primary, and their near exact counterpart that was Hilary Clinton.
That's why Donald Trump won the first time. He was the third party. Except he chose to run under the republican party banner because he knew he could guarantee 20% of Americans would vote for any Republican because of the work the party did in the 1970s and 80s becoming the party of American Christianity.
Why did Harris fail? Because she promised to be Biden 2.0. Why did Biden win his first term but was projected to lose by the worst margins in US history for his second term? Because people wanted something different. Biden proved to be Donald Trump but quiet.